DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

DeepSeek just turned a temporary bargain into a permanent price war, saying its flagship V4-Pro artificial intelligence model will stay at 75% off instead of bouncing back at the end of May. In plain English: developers can keep using it for about a quarter of the old price. That’s a big, flashy move in the global AI fight, especially as Chinese companies push harder against American rivals. But in the comments, the mood was less “wow, what a deal” and more “okay, but do we actually want it?”

The hottest reaction came from people arguing that price is not the main thing anymore. One commenter basically shrugged and said if a pricier model from OpenAI or Anthropic gives better work, the savings from DeepSeek don’t matter much. Translation: if your digital helper is making your team faster and smarter, pinching pennies on usage may not be worth it. Others steered the thread straight into culture-war territory, with one person claiming American AI tools are tuned to reflect certain political views. And then, because the internet refuses to stay serious for more than eight seconds, the jokes arrived: one commenter wandered into a riff on the Turing test—the old idea of whether a machine can seem human—while another cracked, “At least we’re not thinking that it is God,” which is exactly the kind of chaotic comment-section energy this story deserves. There was even a random “Land value tax fixes this” drive-by, because no online debate is complete without one totally unexpected take.